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As at Sunday night. Thought Newcastle would win at Charlton. A split developing in the table.

Golgafrincham_UK 75
Scripophilist 74
Kivver 69
MT Glass 67
Themuffinman 51
dave37 51
tbm 50
Carefree 50
scabbers 33

yes and me, had newcastle down for a 2-1 win, 1 goal out again.

I think the match tonight is a difficult one. I fancy Spurs to shade it.

nope, i think they fall down tonight and end the fluke start to the season...in all seriousness i think spurs lose 2-0.

On the long term form I think Pompey could shade it but the short term form which is more reliable seems to point to Spurs. With Robbie Keane looking more interesting I think a tight match with somebody bundling the ball into the back net in the second half.

Now watch this prediction go totally to pot!!

spurs to win one nil

its just that after the chelsea loss against a team they should have dominated, i think spurs will play "boring boring" tactics but do something stupid to let Pompey through.

gut feel, its all i've got but is stand by spurs going down 2-0.

its time that premiership teams (read Chelsea, Spurs) start to remember that they are mean't to play the game as opposed to keep 10 men and their dog behind the ball for 98.7% of the time.

As a Gooner I am blessed to be watching and supporting some of the best football in the modern era. up the gunners.

As a Southampton support I am cursed to be watching and supporting some of the worst football in my modern memory, sack the board. Less than two seasons after being on a bit of a high I am once again wondering why my loyalty stays with my birth town.

I've wondered for years what it must be like to watch a team that wins a lot. I remember back to 1982/83 when we finished second and only failed to win the league by three points. But back then most footballers, and managers, were English and it only cost 1.50 to stand on the terraces.

you are the lucky one scrip even though it may not seem it. My team bham city have been out the top flight for about 18 years and ive had to watch some of the most dire matches you could believe esp late 80 early 90 in div 3. You have not gone down yet. I still feel there are 3 teams worse than you. And it is really bad luck to have so many good players injured, any team would find it hard to cope with that.

Yes it was weird Chelsea moaning about negative football when they seem to take the bus to all away games and park it in front of the goal.

Changed my mind before the kick off, gone for a narrow Pompey win.

As a CFC fan through and through I am absolutely amazed at comments about taking the bus to Man City - Did you see the game? Have you seen the stats? Was that a defensive display?

For those that didn't watch Eider,and Lampard had several chances to pull one back. What we lacked at the weekend was a proper finisher in form.

Ironic that after decades of "boring, boring Arsenal" we now have a Gooner on board talking about attacking football.

At this rate we may yet see one talk about fair play and sportsmanship. Mind you thats probably stretching things too far.

I didn't see the match but. I had a look at the stats and it looked to me as though Man City were lucky. I don't think they had a single corner in the whole match and Chelsea had six and 11 shots on target I think.

Within shooting distance of the top 180!! Just need a bit of luck to breach the lower boundries.

Had a nose at the results so far this season. Many more draws than normal at the moment. Don't know if this is something structural or just a blip. Interesting to note though.

Scripophilist 77
Golgafrincham_UK 75
Kivver 69
MT Glass 67
Themuffinman 51
dave37 51
tbm 51
Carefree 50
scabbers 33

Point taken about Chelsea v Man City but surely you dont get that many 1-0 wins by playing open attacking football.

Watched the first half of spurs v pompey and it should have been 5-0 to pompey, spurs were absolute rubbish (apart from robinson who looks class), how have they possibly got that high in the league?

Kivver - Faid comment. Chels at the moment are lacking a proper striker (Drogs - injured, Gronks - off form, Mutu - stoned, and Kezman yet to adapt to England/Chelsea). Why we let your boys take Forsell I'll never truly know - I'd bring him back asap, and let him learn the game with us.

The newspaper talk is of Cole returning, but I'm not sure whether he's an answer or not.

Re;your team - I expected better things from them than I've seen to date - Whats wrong ? You have a good squad on paper.

Have placed a nine fold accumulator on this weekend. Will be amazed if it comes in!!

Unfortunately Bolton messed me up but I got the other four results correct. The four tomorrow are a little more difficult IMO.

Only one point outside the top 180 now!! Desperate to produce a result tomorrow but such a hard set of matches qqqqqqto predict.

Well, if any one wants to make money out of Premiership football, ask me what my predictions are and bet on the opposite! Had both the Newcastle and Man Utd scores correct until the last minute goals.

Regards

PTH (Aka Scabbers)

An excellent weekend for Carefree. If Rooney had not ruined it would have had a six pointer in the Man U match but had to settle for two. I guess I should have figured Man U would have a penalty and score in extra time!!

Scripophilist 87
Golgafrincham_UK 81
Kivver 73
MT Glass 70
Carefree 60
dave37 58
Themuffinman 57
tbm 55
scabbers 39